Re: aida stole my code

From: Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:24:21 +0000
Subject: Re: aida stole my code
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Hey Martin, It's good to actually get your real name and email, I intended to write you a message after you posted several messages on my repository. Unfortunately you only left "Beny" as your email, next time you would like to get in contact with me leaving your email address is a good start! It's true that I took the code which you posted, modified it a little (applied PEAR coding standards, and removed sizes over GB) and posted it on my repository. I have taken a few functions from the user notes and put them on the repository over the years, normally I contact the author to ask them for permission - You didn't leave a name or email in your post, so I didn't bother. This was compounded by the fact that you were not the sole author of the function. As you can see from the cached link, there were at least 10 different predecessors to your code. The simple function had evolved over the last 2 years, with yours being the final modification. I wouldn't expect to add your name (if you had left it) to the source more than I would the other 10 people who contributed. I'm sorry you feel so distressed over the issue, I'm more than happy to add you as the author - as I would have told you should you have contacted me. Kind Regards, Aidan Lister "Martin Benjamin" <b.martin@cybernet.ch> wrote in message news:4CDD1F47F29D954AB8E17E4D1AE47C31395DC5@venus.cyberzh.ch... hello guys this is my function i posted it at around 20.40 (GMT +0100) on the 25th of semptember my post showed up on 26-Sep-2004 02:42 http://www.google.ch/search?q=cache:Qt9ePWLQcXgJ:php.isu.edu.tw/manual/t w/function.filesize.php+human_size&hl=de 3 min after it was on the page the admin Aidan Lister <aidan@php.net> changed my function a little bit and posted it on his page. he wrote that he's the admin of my function. http://aidan.dotgeek.org/lib/?file=function.filesize_h.php compare the time and the function!!! it's not a big function but it's fu*ing unfair. aidan is a bastard cu Beny

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